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Nancy’s Bookshelf: Authors Robyn Alana Engel & Carl Erik Fisher invite us to reconsider the way we view mental illness and addiction

Paradise author Robyn Alana Engel's latest book "InSanity" recounts past and personal reflections of trauma, unbearable loss, and survival.

Also, Carl Erik Fisher's "The Urge" is a critically-acclaimed book on the history of addiction. The author and physician ask broader questions of what it means to be human and care for one another.

Carl Erik Fisher is an addiction physician and bioethicist. He is an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, where he works in the Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry.

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Nancy Wiegman has a master's degree in French linguistics from Indiana University and taught yoga and foreign languages at CSU Fresno and the College of Charleston before moving to Chico in 1990.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.